Talk:World Chess Championship 1960

Tie breaks

The Interzonal and Candidates tables have tie break columns. Were tie breaks used in these tournaments? In the absence of evidence that tie breaks were in use, I think they should be removed. Adpete (talk) 06:58, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

I agree, I'll zap them. An enthusiastic user added the tie break column in 2012, but I don't know if there is a reliable source. Even if there is a source, those tie break scores are irrelevant since no tie breaks were needed. Quale (talk) 08:46, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

The source appears to be mark-weeks.com. I emailed Mark Weeks, and he told me that the tie breaks were added by him (in many WCC pages, not just the 1958 Interzonal), as a way to decide how to order finishers. BUT (this is me speaking, not Mark Weeks), tie breaks were sometimes used even earlier than this, e.g. at the 1952 Interzonal; ironically the source in that article is mark-weeks.com, where Weeks references old Chess Review magazines. I think the solution is to not include tie breaks in WC articles unless a reliable source says they were used; and mark-weeks.com is a reliable source only if he cites another source (as he often does). Adpete (talk) 01:29, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

Game 1 diagram

The knight on e6 in the diagram should be on e5. Cdg1072 (talk) 14:30, 23 April 2023 (UTC)